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1 1140 Preconference: 12th ICA Mobile Preconference From Womb to Tomb: Mobile Research Across Genders, Generations, Ethnicities, Cultures, and Life Stages Wednesday 09:00-17:00 Flamboyan Sponsored Sessions Jun Liu, U of Copenhagen, DENMARK Sun Kyong Lee, U of Oklahoma, USA Eulalia Puig Abril, U of Illinois Chicago, USA James E. Katz, Boston U, USA The 12th annual ICA Mobile Preconference will examine, scrutinize, and reflect upon the influence of this dominant new medium on everyday practices of communication through the theme From Womb to Tomb: Mobile Research Across Genders, Generations, Ethnicities, Cultures, and Life Stages. We anticipate a broad range of research topics in mobile communication and welcome extended abstracts based on empirical and/or theoretical work as it relates to: civic engagement, activism and social movements, social media, learning and education, methodologies, international contexts, international development, health, cultural similarities and differences, local culture and heritage, place-based issues, journalism, politics, usability issues, user experiences and perceptions, technologies, interfaces, mobile media histories, and archaeology. The preconference will include a workshop for emerging scholars to provide a forum where graduate students, new faculty, and early scholars can present and discuss their research with more experienced mobile researchers, thus representing an opportunity to establish and nurture a supportive and integrated community Preconference: 12th ICA Mobile Preconference From Womb to Tomb. Mobile Research Across Genders, Generations, Ethnicities, Cultures, and Life Stages Breakout Wednesday Sponsored Sessions 09:00-17:00 Ceiba

2 2111 International Communication Association Executive Committee Meeting Thursday 08:00-12:00 Executive Boardroom Sponsored Sessions Peter Vorderer, U of Mannheim, GERMANY Amy B. Jordan, U of Pennsylvania, USA Francois Heinderyckx, U Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM Cynthia Stohl, U of California - Santa Barbara, USA Larry Gross, U of Southern California, USA Peng Hwa Ang, Nanyang Technological U, SINGAPORE Ted Zorn, Massey U, NEW ZEALAND Michael L. Haley, International Communication Association, USA 2117 Preconference: Communication and Technology Doctoral Consortium Thursday 08:30-17:00 Conference Room 8/9 Sponsored Sessions s Nicole C. Kramer, U of Duisburg-Essen, GERMANY Marjolijn L. Antheunis, Tilburg U, THE NETHERLANDS S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State U and Sungkyunkwan U, USA Jesse Fox, Ohio State U, USA Louis W. Leung, The Chinese U of Hong Kong, CHINA, PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF Veronika Karnowski, Ludwig Maximilians U Munich, GERMANY Joseph B. Walther, Nanyang Technological U, SINGAPORE Sabine Trepte, U of Hohenheim, GERMANY Mike Z. Yao, City U of Hong Kong, CHINA, PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF Klaus Bruhn Jensen, U of Copenhagen, DENMARK Lee Humphreys, Cornell U, USA Benjamin H. Detenber, Nanyang Technological U, SINGAPORE The consortium brings together PhD candidates working on Communication and Technology to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the event are to provide feedback and advice to participating PhD candidates on their in-progress research thesis. Moreover, the doctoral consortium will provide the opportunity to meet experts as well as fellow PhD candidates from different backgrounds working on related topics. During the consortium, students will be invited to present their work, following which they will receive feedback from their fellow students and faculty participants, all of whom will have read the proposals in advance of the Doctoral Consortium. In addition, at least one faculty participant will be assigned to respond in detail to each proposal. Besides the presentations of proposals, there will also be discussion of other topics such as ethics, research methods, publishing the thesis, and positioning one's work for the job market Preconference: Advancing Public Diplomacy Research: Bringing Together Political Communication and Public Relations Thursday 08:30-12:00 Conference Room 10 Sponsored Sessions s Diana Ingenhoff, U of Fribourg, SWITZERLAND Kathy Fitzpatrick, Florida International U, USA Candace L. White, U of Tennessee, USA Spiro K. Kiousis, U of Florida, USA

3 Participant Conceptual and Practical Connections in Political Communication and Public Relations: How Interdisciplinary Research Could Inform Public Diplomacy Thinking and Practices Jian Wang, U of Southern California, USA Public diplomacy has been the focus of scholarship in both political communication and public relations, yet the two disciplines have worked separately, for the most part, in terms of developing a research agenda that would contribute to the advancement of public diplomacy. This preconference will help spark discussion that can lead to new collaborative initiatives between these interdisciplinary fields, and illuminate tangible methods to investigate public diplomacy and nation branding from different angles and perspectives Preconference: Organizational Communication Division Doctoral Consortium: Your Academic Career in a Globalized World Thursday 08:30-17:00 Las Olas Sponsored Sessions Boris H. J. M. Brummans, U of Montreal, CANADA Janet Fulk, U of Southern California, USA Rebecca Gill, Massey U, NEW ZEALAND Dennis K. Mumby, U of North Carolina, USA Amanda J. Porter, VU U Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Ronald E. Rice, U of California - Santa Barbara, USA Keri Keilberg Stephens, U of Texas, USA Katie R. Sullivan, U of Utah, USA Consuelo Vasquez, U of Quebec in Montreal, CANADA Y. Connie Yuan, Cornell U, USA This full-day workshop brings together doctoral students and faculty to examine contemporary issues related to the development of our next generation of scholars. As we try to further increase the international profile of ICA and our division, it is appropriate to discuss what the international character of the academic world means for one s career (or academic life span). We are grateful to VU University Amsterdam / KIN Research Group for their generous sponsorship of this event Preconference: Computational Approaches to Advance Communication Research Thursday 08:30-17:00 Flamingo A Sponsored Sessions s Noshir S. Contractor, Northwestern U, USA Leslie Ann DeChurch, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Rapid advancements in digitally-enabled communication have given rise to novel forms of organizing. Because of their immense capacity for flexibility and their ability to draw on the expertise of multiple disciplines, the large-scale, these novel forms of organizing have the potential to solve some of the grand challenges of today s world those in education, cyberlearning, health care, environmental sustainability, climate change, and disaster response. However, understanding and enabling these novel forms of organizing faces the significant hurdle of interdisciplinarity. The complexity of virtual organizing requires the deep expertise of many sub-disciplines within communication as well as computer science, information and decision sciences, management, and psychology, to name a few. An integral next step is to invest in community and infrastructure development that better fuses the social and the technical cores of this science. This need for greater sociotechnical integration is at the heart of a new paradigm in social science, dubbed computational social science (CSS).

4 2129 Preconference: Stuart Hall and the Future of Media and Cultural Studies Thursday 08:30-16:30 Salon Del Mar Sponsored Sessions Melissa A. Click, U of Missouri - Columbia, USA Jonathan Alan Gray, U of Wisconsin, USA Adrienne Shaw, Temple U, USA Lawrence Grossberg, U of North Carolina, USA Stuart Hall is a household name for all who do critical/cultural work on communication; his influence is abundantly evident on second, third, and fourth generation work; and he is a revered public intellectual who dedicated his career as much to civic society around him as to the academy. He is the leading figure in Cultural Studies, and his work is canonical in the study of media representations, identity, audiences, cultural theory, class, postcolonialism, youth and criminality, ideology, ethnic studies, and diaspora. Hall has received countless honors, is the subject of books and films, and has a library named after him, and his death in February 2014 was widely and deeply felt. Hall won ICA s Steven H. Chaffee Career Achievement award in May 2014, and this preconference will reflect upon Hall s contributions to and his relevance for contemporary and future communication scholarship Preconference: Communications and the State: Toward a New International History Thursday 08:30-17:00 Condado Plaza Miramar I Sponsored Sessions In 2004, Paul Starr remarked that Technology and economics cannot alone explain the system of communications we have inherited or the one we are creating. The communications media have so direct a bearing on the exercise of power that their development is impossible to understand without taking politics into account, not simply in the use of media, but in the making of constitutive choices about them. Alongside Starr, historians have produced a vibrant new literature detailing the constitutive role of the state in the making of communications and the constitutive role of communications in the making and unmaking of states and empires. Indeed, communications and the industries, infrastructures, and cultures that take shape around it has been integral to state-related projects ranging from empire building to liberation movements and great leaps forward. Though the range of state activities affecting and structuring communications is vast, it is possible to identify four broad themes: the state as communicator, the state as a regulator of communication, the state as a creator and/or subsidizer of structures of communication, and the state as an object of critique by citizens and subjects. This preconference is off-site Preconference: Communications and the State: Toward a New International History Breakout Thursday 08:30-17:00 Condado Plaza Miramar II Sponsored Sessions This preconference is off-site Communication in the Digital Age: New Frontiers Thursday 09:00-13:00 Boardroom 1 Sponsored Sessions s Brooke Foucault Welles, Northeastern U, USA Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, U of Pennsylvania, USA

5 Nick Beauchamp, Northeastern U, USA Deen Goodwin Freelon, American U, USA Drew Berkley Margolin, Cornell U, USA Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Erasmus U Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Katherine Ognyanova, Northeastern U, USA Katy Elizabeth Pearce, U of Washington, USA Jaime Settle, William and Mary U, USA Aaron Shaw, Northwestern U, USA Digital technologies, social media, and countless online applications create the infrastructure and interface through which many of our interactions take place today. This societal change is interesting in itself: it poses new questions about how we socialize and engage in public, but also how we build a sense of identity and delimit the private domain. It is also interesting because the ubiquitous adoption of new technologies produces, as a byproduct, new ways of observing the world: many of our interactions now leave a trail of digital footprints that, if followed, can help us unravel the complexity of society and take us to the eye of the hurricane of social order and change. Using digital data to tackle interesting questions and advance our research agendas requires partnerships across disciplinary boundaries that are still uncommon. Social scientists and computer scientists have never been closer in their goals of trying to understand communication dynamics. This preconference workshop builds on a popular panel discussion at ICA2014 and aims to create a platform to discuss recent research at the intersection of computational and social science approaches to integrate knowledge and address the big puzzles that beat at the heart of communication research Preconference: PhD Workshop: Public Relations and Strategic Communication Thursday 09:00-12:30 Boardroom 2 Sponsored Sessions This half day workshop is relevant for Public Relations and Strategic Communication PhD students at different stages of their dissertation. The workshop aims to provide doctoral students with an opportunity to present and discuss their dissertation research in a constructive atmosphere. Students receive feedback and advice on their projects, theoretical frameworks, methodologies and research designs from senior scholars and other students, who review the proposals. The workshop also serves as a platform for students working in these areas to establish valuable networks and examine issues which are important for their future careers. It provides a basis for general discussions on a variety of other issues Preconference: Bringing Together Social and Semantic Networks in Communication Research Thursday 09:00-17:00 Conference Room 3/4/5 Sponsored Sessions s Christian Baden, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, ISRAEL Wouter van Atteveldt, VU U Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Jana Diesner, U of Illinois, USA While the analysis of social networks and semantic networks has quickly advanced over the past years, this development is still weakly received in the communication sciences. Network researchers have developed a whole bouquet of powerful and scalable tools and methods to the analysis of discourse texts and communicative interactions, and first inroads are being cut toward the joint analysis of social and semantic network data. However, these methods communication theoretic foundations, as well as their applications for addressing pressing questions in the field are still underdeveloped. Moreover, social and semantic network analytic approaches are most commonly considered separately. Yet, communication processes inevitably include patterns of both social relations and semantic contents, which can often be fruitfully conceptualized as networks. Building upon last year s preconference on this theme, this event is aimed to connect network analytic methodology with important developments in the field of communication research.

6 2115 Preconference: Theorizing Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identity: Exploring the Constitutive Roles of Communication Thursday 09:00-17:30 Conference Room 6 Sponsored Sessions s Jimmie Manning, Northern Illinois U, USA Lelia Samson, Nanyang Technological U, SINGAPORE This preconference brings together scholars from across contextual areas of the discipline to consider how sex, sexuality, and sexual identity are and can be theorized in communication research. Through a panel discussion, research presentations, and interactive agenda-building sessions, participants will collaborate to consider generative futures for communication scholarship about sex, sexuality, and sexual identities Preconference: Administrative v. Critical Research: Implications for Contemporary Information Policy Studies Thursday 09:00-17:00 Conference Room 7 Sponsored Sessions s Amit Schejter, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev, ISRAEL Richard D. Taylor, Pennsylvania State U, USA Krishna Jayakar, Pennsylvania State U, USA Seamus Simpson, U of Salford, UNITED KINGDOM Robin Elizabeth Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UNITED KINGDOM Bingchun Meng, London School of Economics and Political Science, UNITED KINGDOM Noam Tirosh, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev, ISRAEL Tensions, disagreements, differences and disputes of both a methodological and theoretical nature have always been an attribute of communication policy studies. One of the major contributions to this debate is Paul Lazarsfeld s seminal piece Remarks on Administrative and Critical Communication Research. The Journal of Information Policy, the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State, the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the LINKS-ICORE project at the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and ICA s Communication Law and Policy Division present a preconference in which the distinction between administrative and critical scholarship in light of Lazarsfeld s analysis will be tested when applied to today s information society and the research questions contemporary information policy raises Preconference: Communication Science: Evolution, Biology, and Brains Across the Lifespan - Innovation in Theory and Methods Thursday 09:00-16:30 Flamingo B Sponsored Sessions s Rene Weber, U of California - Santa Barbara, USA Jason C. Coronel, U of Pennsylvania, USA Allison Eden, VU - U Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Emily Falk, U of Pennsylvania, USA Research using evolutionary theory, biological explanations, and study paradigms from the neurosciences to answer questions central to communication scholars are increasingly common and have seen a recent surge in communication science. For instance, the past year has seen multiple special issues focusing on neuroscience and broader biological methods in communication science including special issues in Communication Monographs, Journal of Medial Psychology, and Communication Methods and Measures. This preconference responds to the critical mass of communication researchers who have taken up biological explanations and seeks to bring together researchers under the explicit umbrella of our field

7 and our questions. Building on the momentum from the past 2 years, this preconference will bring together scholars who are working across subfields of communication studies and use evolutionary theory, biological explanations as well as neuroscience, and other biological measures to address core questions in communication studies. Most importantly, the preconference participants will share new data and discuss a vision for how communication studies can best leverage such new theorizing and study paradigms Preconference: Ethical Stakeholder Engagement: A Showcase of Projects From the Arthur W. Page Center Thursday 09:00-12:30 Flamingo D Sponsored Sessions This preconference will include two panel discussions. Each will feature sponsored research from the Arthur W. Page Center project on ethical stakeholder engagement. The first research panel will feature four of the research projects that together examined engagement as related to social media. The discussions will cover multiple platforms and theoretical foundations in an effort to identify practical implications for ethical engagement in the rapidly changing social media environment. The second panel will include presentations on engagement with four unique stakeholder groups. The discussion will focus on best practices and recommendations Preconference: 12th ICA Mobile Preconference From Womb to Tomb: Mobile Research Across Genders, Generations, Ethnicities, Cultures, and Life Stages Thursday 09:00-13:00 Flamboyan Sponsored Sessions Jun Liu, U of Copenhagen, DENMARK Sun Kyong Lee, U of Oklahoma, USA Eulalia Puig Abril, U of Illinois Chicago, USA James E. Katz, Boston U, USA Communication through mobile media has become central to people s lives around the world, no matter age, gender, or ethnicity, and is driven by widespread adoption of a repertoire of mobile devices. Usage of mobile media is closely tied to the life circumstances of individuals. The 12th annual ICA Mobile Preconference will examine, scrutinize, and reflect upon the influence of this dominant new medium on everyday practices of communication through the theme From Womb to Tomb: Mobile Research Across Genders, Generations, Ethnicities, Cultures, and Life Stages Preconference: 12th ICA Mobile Preconference From Womb to Tomb. Mobile Research Across Genders, Generations, Ethnicities, Cultures, and Life Stages Breakout Thursday Sponsored Sessions 09:00-13:00 Ceiba 2142 Preconference: New Media and Citizenship in Asia: Civic Engagement for Sustainable Development Across the Life Span Thursday 09:00-17:00 Guayacua Sponsored Sessions s Nojin Kwak, U of Michigan, USA Marko M. Skoric, City U of Hong Kong, CHINA, PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF Natalie Pang, Nanyang Technological U, SINGAPORE Baohua Zhou, Fudan U, CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF Tetsuro Kobayashi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan, JAPAN Scott W. Campbell, U of Michigan, USA Junho Choi, Yonsei U, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

9 Framing Participation, Filtering Conversation: Instagram and the Indian Elections Sriram Mohan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, INDIA Digital Media, Yonkyol, Yonjul, and Civic Engagement in South Korea Chang Sup Park, Bloomsburg U of Pennsylvania, USA Twitter Use During Typhoon Yolanda: Exploring Civic Engagement in Calamities Nathaniel Oco, National U, USA Cheryll Ruth Reyes Soriano, De La Salle U, PHILIPPINES Maria Divinia Gracia Z. Roldan, De La Salle U, PHILIPPINES Francisco A. Magno, De La Salle U, PHILIPPINES Charibeth K. Cheng, De La Salle U, PHILIPPINES Political Facilitators and Barriers towards Digitally Mediated Civic Engagement for Dengue Prevention in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore Chitra Panchapakesan, Nanyang Technological U, SINGAPORE May O. Lwin, Nanyang Technological U, SINGAPORE Revisiting the Relationship Between Internet Use and Political Efficacy in China: From the Perspective of Media System Dependency Theory Yu Xu, U of Southern California, USA Yajie Chu, Tsinghua U, CHINA, PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF The role of new communication technologies such as the internet, social media, and mobile phones in political and civic engagement has generated significant interest not only from scholars, but also organizations, politicians, and ordinary citizens. While recent events in parts of the world, such as the Middle East, help recognize the potential of new communication media as an agent contributing to macrolevel political changes, these new communication tools are also actively utilized in more traditional political processes, such as electoral campaigns. Also important is everyday use of new communication technologies, which provides individuals with an opportunity to encounter public affairs news and discourse, enhance understanding of issues, and get involved in civic and political opportunities. One of critical elements that we should pay attention to when appreciating the role of new media perhaps underlying all of these processes and practices would be values, traditions, and history that define each Asian country and the region Preconference: Discussion, Dialogue, Discourse: Meanings and Methods Thursday 09:00-15:00 Maguey Sponsored Sessions s Uta Russmann, FHWien U of Applied Sciences, AUSTRIA Anne B Lane, Queensland U of Technology, AUSTRALIA Carl H. Botan, George Mason U, USA Michael L. Kent, U of Oklahoma, USA Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff U - JOMEC, UNITED KINGDOM Rules of Engagement: Preparing PR Students and Early Career Professionals for the Digital Front Lines Betsy D. Anderson, U of Minnesota, USA Rebecca Dean Swenson, U of Minnesota, USA Nathan Gilkerson, Marquette U, USA Dialogue: A Guiding Principle for Young Public Relations Professionals? Results of a Q-Survey Among German Professional Newcomers Helena Maria Stehle, U of Hohenheim, GERMANY Simone Huck-Sandhu, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Publizistik, GERMANY The Role of Social Media Discourses on Stakeholder Crises Awareness and Perception: A Conceptual Framework Chiara Valentini, Aarhus U, DENMARK Stefania Romenti, IULM U, ITALY Dean Kruckeberg, U of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA

10 Unfolding CSR Discourse in the Fashion Industry Anne Ellerup Nielsen, Aarhus U, DENMARK Chiara Valentini, Aarhus U, DENMARK Candace L. White, U of Tennessee, USA Creation of the Online Public Sphere: Discourse, Dialog, or Discussion Christopher Wells, U of Wisconsin, USA Karolina Koc-Michalska, SciencesCom - Audencia Group, FRANCE Darren Lilleker, Bournemouth U, UNITED KINGDOM Karl Rohe, U of Wisconsin, USA From Chit-Chat to Discourse. A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Findings on Dialogic Interactions in Online Public Relations via Facebook Kerstin Thummes, U of Muenster, GERMANY Maja Malik, European Communication Research and Education Association, BELGIUM Deliberation, Dialogue or Just Updating? Activist Social Media Practices in Southern Stockholm Jakob Svensson, Uppsala U, SWEDEN Dump the Dialogue: Re-Imagining Dialogue for 21st Century Organizations Anne B Lane, Queensland U of Technology, AUSTRALIA Audience Understanding of Discussion, Dialogue, and Environment in News Discourses Alison N. Novak, Temple U, USA Computer Supported Deliberation and Argumentation Online Magnus Hoem Iversen, U of Bergen, NORWAY Truls Pedersen, U of Bergen, NORWAY Eirik Stavelin, U Bergen, NORWAY Samia Touileb, U of Bergen, NORWAY Discussion, dialogue, and discourse have long been regarded as important concepts across a range of communication-related disciplines such as public relations, organizational communication, computermediated communication, journalism and political communication. These concepts are becoming even more significant with the increasing use of social media and other forms of online communication by organizations and their publics/stakeholders/citizens. The online environment has provided a unique milieu for the conduct of discussion, dialogue, and discourse, but it has also focused attention on the inconsistent use of these labels, the significance of the differences between the concepts, and the gaps between normative theory and pragmatic action. The focus of this preconference therefore will be to invite theoretical and empirical contributions that add to the understanding of discussion, dialogue, and discourse with particular emphasis on the translation of these concepts into the online space Preconference: Political Communication Graduate Student Workshop Thursday 09:00-17:00 Garita Sponsored Sessions Jesper Stromback, Mid Sweden U, SWEDEN Open to preselected graduate students only Preconference: Journalism Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Thursday 09:00-16:00 Condao Plaza Hilton Boardroom I Sponsored Sessions Matt Carlson, Saint Louis U, USA Henrik Ornebring, Karlstad U, SWEDEN The Journalism Studies Graduate Student Colloquium brings together PhD candidates working in journalism studies with experienced scholars in the field. The Colloquium is part of the Journalism

12 David M Staton, U of Oregon, USA Sela Sar, U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Ellen M.A. Smets, Academic Medical Center, U of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Murdoch Stephens, Massey U, NEW ZEALAND Michael Sülflow, Johannes Gutenberg U, GERMANY Julia C.M. van Weert, U of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Melinda Weathers, Clemson U, USA Ieva Zakareviciute, Ludwig Maximilians U Munich, GERMANY Yue Zheng, U of South Carolina, USA Respondents Giorgia Aiello, U of Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM Mary Angela Bock, U of Texas, USA Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics and Political Science, UNITED KINGDOM Shahira S. Fahmy, U of Arizona, USA Paul Frosh, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, ISRAEL Robert Hariman, Northwestern U, USA John Lucaites, Indiana U, USA Marion G. Mueller, Jacobs U Bremen, GERMANY Carlos Acevedo, U del Turabo, PUERTO RICO Alexander Cancio, U del Turabo, PUERTO RICO René Rodríguez, U del Turabo, PUERTO RICO Luis Rosario Albert, U del Turabo, PUERTO RICO Carmen Ruiz Fischler, U del Turabo, PUERTO RICO Considering mediated images on all levels of the communication process is becoming increasingly important and receives growing attention from scholars throughout all sub-fields of communication studies covered by ICA. At the same time, due to the specifics of visual communication, research on mediated images, their production and reception comes with particular methodological challenges. Discussing them, however, proves to be particularly difficult for young scholars, since peers and experts with respect to specific visual methods are scattered throughout all ICA divisions and interest groups. This one-day preconference therefore focuses on the needs of young scholars. This preconference is off-site Preconference: Gaming Bodies Thursday 09:30-16:45 U of Puerto Rico Anfiteatro de Comunicación - Room 101 and 102. Sponsored Sessions Jaime Banks, West Virginia U, USA Digital games have complicated notions of what a body is and what it means during and apart from play. Both digital and physical bodies are understood to influence or be influenced by gameplay experiences according to their unique traits, states, abilities, materialities, and governing systems. In gamespaces, digital bodies may be considered both as signifiers and agents of players intention and as independent entities functioning according to their inherent design. On the other side of the interface, physical bodies may be considered both as manipulators of game content and as being influenced by game events that they help create. In many ways, these interplays between digital and physical bodies are central to notions of play. The goal of this preconference is to shed light on the natures, functions, and interplays of digital and physical bodies in games, and how bodies are engaged in and influenced by play. This preconference is off-site.

15 3113 BlueSky Workshop: Consuming Virtual Reality: Promises and Pitfalls 09:00-10:15 Boardroom 2 Sponsored Sessions s Ketaki Shriram, Stanford U, USA Jakki Bailey, Stanford U, USA Andrea Stevenson Won, Stanford U, USA This forum offers attendees the chance to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of using consumer virtual reality interfaces, such as the Oculus Rift, as research platforms. After a brief introduction, we will contrast the past and future use of virtual reality in communication research. In particular, we will examine how this technology may be experienced differentially across the lifespan. What will the effects of immersive virtual reality be on children? How may older adults adapt to this technology? Who will have access to this technology? What will drive the development of content? What ethical issues have already arisen, and what issues may arise in the future? 3114 Constructing the Carer Across the Lifespan of Care: Home and Community-Based Care Contexts Across the Globe 09:00-10:15 Conference Room 3/4/5 Theme Sessions Mary Louisa Simpson, U of Waikato, NEW ZEALAND The Constructed Role of Mother and Daughter When Negotiating Care after a Breast Cancer Diagnosis Carla L Fisher, George Mason U, USA Who Cares? Home-Based and Community-Based Care Workers Development of Positive Occupational Identity Kirstie Lynd McAllum, U de Montreal, CANADA What Makes a Good Aide? Examining Competing Expectations Concerning Traits of Home Health Aides Muriel E. Scott, Winona State U, USA Constructions of the Whanau Care Role in Palliative Care of Māori Kaumātua Mary Louisa Simpson, U of Waikato, NEW ZEALAND John Oetzel, U of Waikato, NEW ZEALAND Kay Berryman, Waikato Tainui College, NEW ZEALAND Rangimahora Reddy, Rauawaawa Kaumatua Charitable Trust, NEW ZEALAND The Communicative Force of Hospice Rituals Jillian Tullis, U of North Carolina Charlotte, USA Respondent Jill Yamasaki, U of Houston, USA This panel examines how caregivers engaged in elder care, palliative care, hospice care, and care for a family member with cancer construct their role, in light of the barrage of multiple, competing meanings and values attributed to giving care. Previous work has positioned the caregiving role in either/or terms, as nuturant and self-sacrificing or as low-skilled dirty work. These studies unpack how such roles are communicatively generated and contextually bound to caregivers place in the care relationship and extend them, offering alternative, empirically grounded, ways of understanding the caregiver role. As the blurred public/private boundaries that characterize home- and community-based care also complexify role expectations, the papers consider how caregivers navigate seemingly incompatible notions.

16 3115 Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability 09:00-10:15 Conference Room 6 Organizational Communication Francois Allard-Huver, Paris Sorbonne U - CELSA, FRANCE Corporate Risk Policing: On the Surveillance Practices of Extractive Multinationals to Corporate Resistance Hans Krause Hansen, Copenhagen Business School, DENMARK Julie Uldam, Copenhagen Business School, UNITED KINGDOM Discursively Positioning Environmental Sustainability as Competitive Driver in Emerging Markets Rahul Mitra, Wayne State U, USA Is the Impact of CSR Similar Across Borders? Comparison Between Puerto Rico and United States Mari Luz Zapata-Ramos, U of Puerto Rico, PUERTO RICO Yeonsoo Kim, James Madison U, USA Theorizing Sustainability as a Communicative Tool: Communicating Identity in Organizations Debalina Dutta, National U of Singapore, SINGAPORE Respondent Claartje ter Hoeven, U of Twente, THE NETHERLANDS 3116 Building a Comparative Framework for Addressing the Role of Media in the Turkish and Brazilian 2013 Protests 09:00-10:15 Conference Room 7 Global Communication and Social Change Stuart Davis, U of Texas, USA Fluid Movements? How Contemporary Social Movements Hail Each Other via Social Media Ece Algan, California State U - San Bernardino, USA How the Hashtag Revolutionizes the Way We Collectively Contend Eric Borja, U of Texas Austin, USA Beyond Twitter Revolutions: The June 2013 Brazilian Mobilizations in National and International News Media Stuart Davis, U of Texas, USA Joseph D. Straubhaar, U of Texas, USA Are Connective Action's Strengths Also Its Weaknesses? Zeynep Tufekci, U of North Carolina, USA Respondent Philip Howard, U of Washington, USA We seek to develop a comparative framework for examining the role of information and communications technologies in recent large-scale social mobilizations in areas like Turkey and Brazil. Furthering Bennett and Segerberg s recent argument in The Logic of Connective Action (2013) that scholars and activists need to devote closer attention to the different paths taken by memes, slogans spread through platforms like Twitter, and images disseminated through various media outlets, we intend to thicken the descriptive work around these elements of large scale manifestations that have taken off in the last few years through addressing potential lines of intersection or divergence.

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